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A in this month’s issue of the journal Nature Methods discusses the exponential growth of cancer “omics” data, the need for interoperability between data integration tools, and the approaches researchers are taking to address these issues. One of the helpful technologies highlighted in the piece is , a platform that bridges commonly used bioinformatics tools, facilitating interoperability for biomedical investigators with little to no computer programming experience.

Groups led by ӳ����ý’s chief informatics officer Jill Mesirov and ӳ����ý core member Aviv Regev developed the platform in collaboration with six other labs. Over twenty different bioinformatic tools can interact computationally on the platform, and GenomeSpace also offers “recipes” of prearranged, multi-tool workflows that researchers can rely on to analyze their genomic data.